NICU Nursing Professional Development Specialist

• Provides educational opportunities that benefit nurses at all stages of their career development.
• Assists learners in the assessment of needs and identification of outcomes.
• Incorporates principles of adult learning in advancing professional nursing practice.
• Identifies and evaluates high quality, culturally diverse instructional materials in all types of media and formats.
• Adjusts content and teaching strategies to meet learner needs.
• Identifies individuals who do not meet established competency expectations and recommends a formal action plan to PCS leadership.
• Responds to changes in nursing practice and? nursing theory and develops programs to support those changes.
• Assesses and evaluates professional and community practice standards, technology, clinical informatics, and clinical innovations for improved patient care.
• Maintains flexibility when managing multiple roles and responsibilities.
• Interprets and communicates across multiple disciplines.
• Promotes a safe and healthy work environment.
• Maintains and advocates up-to-date knowledge of trends and advances in the field of Nursing and Healthcare Informatics, as well as new developments in hardware and software technology.
• Maintains and advocates up-to-date knowledge of nursing practices, regulatory standards, and organizational priorities.
• Consults staff and leadership in areas of clinical expertise (e.g. workflow and clinical use recommendations), provides information on current clinical practice, and addresses clinical questions.
• Ensures optimization efforts are identified and implemented to support clinical decision making that supports high quality and safe patient care.

Secondary Functions:

• ACO support.

• Minimum three (3) years of nursing experience.
• Minimum one (1) year of experience coordinating or managing education program /curriculum design, development and evaluation/assessment
• Minimum one (1) year in staff professional development and/or clinical training/teaching.

• Masters degree in nursing or related field required. Graduate of accredited school of nursing.

• Registered Nurse License (California) required at hire
  

• Basic Life Support
  

• Knowledge of Nurse Practice Act, federal, state, and local requirements.
• Demonstrated knowledge in KP HealthConnect including functionality and expertise in workflows (or for external hires,
• similarly integrated medical record).
• Demonstrated knowledge of medical center policy and procedure requirements, specialty training and competency
• requirements.
• National Certification required within one year of hire
• Must be able to work in a Labor/Management Partnership environment

• Minimum six (6) months of experience coordinating or managing education program /curriculum design, development
• and evaluation/assessment preferred
• Doctorate of Nursing Practice or PhD in related field preferred